Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1887-12-29
WOLVERINE WHISP ERINGS.


Lieut.. Wendall Simpson has been ap.
pointed to succeed Lieut.. Lockwood q.
military instructor ut the agricultural
college.
Fuller 81 Son OF Minneapoli; viii move
their woodworking establishment to
ka.amaZoo soon.
Jacob Mitchell, an honorei citizen OF
Kalamazoo, is dead.
The first through train over the Minneap-
oils, Sault Ste Marie & Atlantic road
reached the $3.50" ON the 10th inst.
Eugene NJ. Converse, Just sent to states
prison from Calhoun count for embez.
Element is employed at packing knives
and forks for shipment.
Miss Marion Chase, for many years
teacher OF history in the K ii IN 400 col
iege, died the other day at the A ma sanI-
tarium OF nervous prostration. Aged 4,
Wilbur Ii. Hill, the Michigan lumber
king, diel at his home in East Saginaw on
tie 10Th inst.
A farmers institute will be held in Itha-
ca February and 3.
The Brotherhood of the state g;ange
numbers 1900.
land, lost his barn and the seasons crops
by fire the other night
The small tribe of Pottawatomie Indian.
on the reservation near Athens, Ca houn
county. intend to make an effort to secure
certain moneys and lands granted them
under the treaty of g. which they have
never received.
Shafts are being sunk at Vassar to tap
the recently discovered strata of coal
there.
Hill sdale and Branch counties give $500
majority in favor of local option.
Miss Della A. Rogers, for many years n
prominent worker in educational circles
in Michigan, died at Chicago, few days
ago. Together with her sister, Miss A. c.
Rogers, she founded the Michigan female
collage in Lansing in 1856. This insti tu-
ton at once took leading posi- ton and
was discontinued only when ths death of
Miss A. e. Rogers rendered the work too
much for the remaining sisters.
John Bennick was burned to death in
the fire which destroyed the Baraga house
in Baraga, few days ago.
Barry county gives about 1000 major
ity for local option.
Dan Fulton, who killed his wife near
Corunna some months ago, has been found
guilty of murder in the first degree.
Civil service examinations viii occur
in Michigan as follows Detroit Thursday,
March %; Lansing, Saturday, March "a:
Grand Rapids Tuesday, March 27th; De
troit, Friday, November 9th; Lansing
Monday, November 18th. Applications
must be filed with the commissioner at
east six days before the time fixed for
he examination.
Rev. A. II. Mueller, pastor of the Ger
man Lutheran churcl OF West Bay City,
was found dead in bed the other day.
Antrim county will open poor house
Jan. ].
The Twenty-first Michigan Infantry will
hold u reunion in Grand Rapids Jan. II,
| 1888.
Good horses for work in the lumber
woods sell ut from $500 to SOD per pair at
| Saginaw.
The union labor party of Michigan will
hold a state conven ton in Detroit Jan. :.
William Webster of Muskegon was killed
on the Toledo, Saginaw IL Muskegon roa d
near Sparta.
George II. Brown, one Of the Oldest res
idents of School raft, Kalam azoo county,
suicided a few days ago. Cause, despond-
ency.
The Battle Greek buggy company has
been formed, with $50, O0J capital.
| Andrew Armstrong and Joel Case of
Marshall, both of whom have seen some
three score years, were sentenced to
thirty days each for illegal cohabitntion
with two young woman. Case took his
punishment so hard that he died In jail
the next night first be lueathing an un
incumbered farm to his paramount, re
garding whom he said she was the "only
woman he had ever loved"
Alexander Miller, for fifty years a resi-.
dent of Flushing township, Genesee coun
ty, fell from n load OF hay on his farm
two milo from Flushing village the Other
morning, and broke his neck. Death, oil
course. ensued instantly. Tho deceased
leaves q wife and four children. He wa
II years OF age and leaves considerabl,
property.
Orlando Fleming was instantly killet
at East Saginaw while coupling cars.
Tho SUI of the state Michigan va. Alfre
z. Swineford, governor Of Alaska. wa
tried in the circuit court al Marquette OF
the 20th inst. Judge Grant ruled tina
Gov. Swineford was mi agent Of the state
in connection with the New Orleans OK
position and therefore accountable to !
for moneys expended. lie directed til
! jury to bring in n judgment for $780, Tn
sum not accounted for. The case will b
! taken to the supreme court. Owing to
II change in time of Ala kan steamers, u
said, Gov. Swinerord'' deposition did no
arrive in time for the trial.
Mai. w. W. Van Antwerp postmaste
| of Jackson, and owner of the Jaokso
Patriot. is dead.